1 The inhabitants of the adjacent towns repair thither in the summerseason, on parties of pleasure. By the census taken in 1791, there were fifteen houses and two hundred and fifty-two inhabitants on them. A LIST OF WRITERS WHO WERE CITIZENS OF BOSTON, WITH THE TIME OF THEIR DECEASE. 1649.-Governour John Winthrop; Journal and political tracts. 1678.-Thomas Thacher; sermons, Hebrew Lexicon, essay on the small pox. 1707. Samuel Willard; Body of Divinity, sermons, &c. 1708. Ezechiel Cheever; grammar and essay on the Millennium. 1710.-James Allen; sermons and polemical divinity. Joshua Scottow; Old men's tears, account of Massachusetts Thomas Brattle; philosophical essays. 1717.-Ebenezer Pemberton; sermons, essays. 1720. Robert Calef; essay and letters upon witchcraft and miracles. 1723. Increase Mather; history, sermons, and polemical divinity. 1728. Cotton Mather; history, biography, sermons, tracts, &c. 1729.-Gov. William Burnet; essays political and theological. 1729.-Henry Harris; polemical divinity. 1730.-Samuel Sewall, Chief Justice; tracts on the Apocalypse, &c. 1737.- Benjamin Wadsworth; sermons, religious tracts. 1737.-Elisha Cooke; political essays. 1738. Peter Thacher; election sermon, funeral sermon, &c. 1739. Jeremiah Dummer; theological and political tracts. 1740.-John Adams; poems. 1743.-William Cooper; sermons. 1745. Isaac Greenwood; mathematicks. Thomas Prince, jun.; Christian History. 1752.-Wiliam Douglass; tracts historical and medical. 1753.-Ellis Gray; several sermons. 1753.-William Welstead; election sermon. Matthew Adams; poetical essays. 1756-Benjamin Brandon; poetical and political essays. 1758. Thomas Prince; annals, sermons, version of psalms. 1760.-William Clark; political tract. 1760. Nathaniel Gardner; poems. 1762.-Andrew Le Mercier; Church history of Geneva, and treatise of detraction. 1763. -Alexander Cumming; several sermons, polemical divinity. 1763.-Benj. Prat; poetical and political essays. 1765.-Oxenbridge Thacher; essays on trade, gold coin. 1765.-Timothy Cutler; sermons. 1766. Zabdiel Boylston; medical essays. 1766.-Jonathan Mayhew; polemical divinity, sermons, political and poetical essays. 1767.-William Hooper; several sermons. 1767.-Jeremy Gridley; Rehearsal, a periodical paper, and political essays. 1768.-Samuel Checkley, jun.; several sermons. 1768.-Jeremy Condy; several sermons, polemical divinity. 1769. Samuel Checkley; several sermons. 1769. Thomas Foxcroft; sermons, polemical divinity. 1769.-Joseph Sewal; sermons. 1773.-Governour William Shirley; account of Louisburg expedi tion. 1774.-Andrew Oliver; political and theological essays. 1775.-Josiah Quincy; political essays. 1775,-Joseph Warren; political essays and orations. 1775.-John Hunt; several sermons. 1776.-Benjamin Church; poems, political essays, and oration. William Bollan; political tracts. 1777.-Ebenezer Pemberton; sermons. 1778.-Andrew Eliot; sermons. 1778.--John Lovell; political essays, oration. 1778.--John Mascarenc; poetical and political essays. 1779.--Jonathan William Austin; poetical and political essays, and oration. 1780.-Gov. Thomas Hutchinson; history of Massachusetts Bay. 1780.--John Perkins; Theory of Agency, and Comets. 1780.-Joseph Green; essays in prose and verse. 1783.-James Qtis; political tracts, essay on prosody. 1783-Samuel Cooper; sermons, and political essays. 1784-Phillis Wheatley; poems. 1785.-Samuel Mather; sermons and essays. 1785.-Andrew Croswell; sermons and polemical divinity. 1787. Charles Chauncy; sermons, polemical divinity, Salvation for all men, &c 1788.--Mather Byles; sermons, essays, poems. 1793--John Gardiner; philological and critical essays. Wards, civil and military, 267 Fire engines, The Boston Regiment of militia, The ancient and honourable Artillery Company, Remarkable fires in Boston, ibid. 268 ibid. ibid. 269 273 ibid. Massachusetts Marine Society, Massachusetts Charitable Society, Academy of Arts and Sciences, Medical Society, Cincinnati Society, 274 ibid. ibid. ibid. ibid. Boston Episcopal Charitable Society, ibid. Humane Society, ibid. Scotch Charitable Society, ibid. Massachusetts Congregational Society, ibid. Society for propagating the gospel among the Indians and others Society for the information and advice of foreigners, Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society, Publick Banks, ibid. 275 Revenue offices, |